Meanwhile, Greg Olson, who was Oakland’s offensive coordinator last year and got the same job with the Jaguars, recommended that coach Gus Bradley hire Kelly, who’d been in Oakland the past eight years.

The Jaguars decision to trade wide receiver Mike Thomas Tuesday is an illustration of how the careers of Thomas and Cecil Shorts, fourth-round draft picks in 2009 and 2011, have gone in opposite directions.

A year ago, Thomas was a starter who signed a three-year $18 million contract extension that was supposed to tie him to the team until 2015.

Shorts, by contrast, was a minimum wage player out of Mount Union who was struggling to make the jump to the NFL and caught just two passes last year while appearing in 10 games.

BALTIMORE — The Jaguars got a reality check Thursday night in a 48-17 preseason loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

After scoring a touchdown on the first drives of the first two preseason games and then pulling the victories out at the end with their backups, the Jaguars appeared overmatched against a Baltimore Ravens team that came within a dropped pass of making the Super Bowl last year.